• A portfolio is a selective sampling of the breadth and depth of a person's work conveying the range of abilities, attitudes, experiences, and achievements.
• Electronic Portfolios are a creative means of organizing, summarizing, and sharing artifacts, information, and ideas along with personal and professional growth.
• The reflective process of portfolio development can be as important as the final product.
• A portfolio is used as part of student evaluation along with other assessment tools such as tests.

The Digital Portfolio is designed to provide a richer picture of your work than traditional transcripts allow. Teachers and parents can gain a better understanding of your abilities and accomplishments by actually looking at what you have selected to include and what you have written about the pieces and the process you went through to complete them. You will collect a set of "entries," consisting of work you have completed. What you choose may be the final product of a project as well as your process in developing that product. After choosing the work, you will write a reflection about each piece. It is important that you consider what goals are met by each particular piece of work you choose to enter into your portfolio.

• Exhibit your best work for post-graduate use.
• Reflect on your progress in all of your subjects since the beginning of your career at Mission High.
• Advance your technology skills.
• Present an authentic assessment of your progress at Mission High. How much have you really learned?

Handout

What is a Digital Portfolio?

Sample Portfolios

Mission High School Senior Portfolios

The Reflect Initiative

Mt. Edgecumbe High School Student Digital Portfolios
Be sure to look at the "Academics" parts of the portfolios.
Some of the links don't work, but the ones that do will take you to samples.

Kalamazoo College: Outstanding Portfolios

Heather Bache: Freshman (College) Portfolio

Albion College Digital Portfolio Examples

Ideas Consulting Inc. Portfolio Samples
Look for the student examples.

High Tech High Digital Portfolios

Mission High School Library Media Center
3750 18th Street
San Francisco, CA., 94114
(415) 241-6240

Updated: December 13, 2006